How this site stays honest

How ratings work

A rating joins a title's average the moment it's cast, but only from an account that has cleared two gates:

That's what verified means here: a confirmed email address on an account at least 24 hours old. New accounts can rate right away, but their score sits out of the average until they clear that bar. It's not a penalty, it's just how the number stays honest.

"Trending" follows the same rule: it's driven by recent ratings from verified members, never by raw popularity carried over from a source site.

Ratings of a person's work in a title (an actor in this film, the director of that series) follow the same verified-members rule and show from the first counted vote. They never enter the title's own average: how somebody acted in a film is not a verdict on the film.

Detailed aspect ratings (gameplay, story, acting, …) and the drop rate follow the same verified-members rule, with one extra guard: an aspect average or a drop rate only appears once at least 5 verified members have weighed in. Below that, a single vote would masquerade as "the number". The overall score is never computed from aspect scores; they are separate signals. The search's filters on these numbers see only counted votes from confirmed accounts, and only from five votes up, the same rule as this page.

When a burst of votes is held back

One thing can stop a verified member's vote from counting straight away, and it is worth stating plainly. If a single axis of a single title suddenly collects many times more votes in a day than that same title has been getting, those votes are held out of the average until a person looks at them.

Nothing is deleted and nobody is banned. The title page says how many votes are held, the average shown is made only of the votes that count, and a moderator either releases them or keeps them out, with the outcome written to the public log. A link from a big forum looks exactly like a coordinated push from here, so the difference is a judgement a person makes, not a rule.

A title is only ever compared with its own recent history, never with other titles, and nothing is held until a title has enough history to depart from. A small title collecting its first ratings is exactly what this site is for.

When accounts are held back

The other thing that can take counted votes out of an average is a hold on a group of accounts. A report ranks accounts by how they behaved, never by what they wrote: several accounts registered from one address, verified within seconds, voting on one title within a minute. Every one of those has an innocent explanation, so the report decides nothing. A person looks.

If a person holds a group, those accounts stop counting everywhere at once, the titles they rated are recomputed the same moment, and the public log says how many accounts and how many titles. Nothing is deleted at that step. A hold is reversed the moment a person decides it was wrong, and the numbers go back to the digit. Only a group that has been held can be deleted, and the averages are recomputed in the same step, so the site never shows a number an account that no longer exists still counts in.

Battles are not ratings

Some titles carry a plaque for winning a battle: a knockout vote between titles from one category and one year. A battle is a game, not a measurement.

A battle vote never touches a rating, an average, an aspect score, the drop rate or the trending list. Battles are counted from the same verified members as everything else, and a pairing only settles once at least 5 of them have voted, the same floor the aspect averages use.

Every plaque says how the final was won and when, and links to the full bracket with every pairing and every count. Nobody can be given one by hand.

How moderation works

Members can report a take for spam, abuse, or an unmarked spoiler. A moderator reviews the report and may hide or remove the take, always with a reason recorded, never silently.

A take that carries a link, contact details, the same text pasted under several titles, or a slur is held before anyone sees it, until a person has read it; every such hold is in the public log, with the rule and never the member.

Reviews are longer pieces and go through a waiting room: a person reads each one before it appears. A model may help sort the queue and score it; a model never rejects a review, and a rejection always comes with a reason to the author.

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